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19th April: Crypto & Coffee at 8 🎙️
🚨 Coinbase to move away from the USA? 🔥Legislation to Fire U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gensler 🔴President Trump makes NFTs great again!

👀 Is Bitcoin Apolitical?
🔴 Republicans: In favour of Bitcoin, Open source, Cryptocurrency & freedom of speech & NOT in favour of CBDC
🔵 Democrats: In favour of more control over money, in favour of CBDC, in favour of being woke & NOT in favour of Bitcoin, Open source, Crypto & freedom of speech

💯 Regulations are needed as long as they don’t stifle innovation!
❗ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong indicated that the crypto exchange would consider moving away from the U.S. if the regulatory environment for the industry does not become clearer. He hinted this after former U.K. Chancellor George Osbourne asked whether he could see Coinbase leaving the U.S. at Fintech Week London More info via CoinDesk here https://lnkd.in/eZyR9jdA The article also states Bittrex said it planned to exit the U.S. by the end of April, citing “the current U.S. regulatory and economic environment.” Info here https://lnkd.in/eUjN9ZK5

🔴 Gary Gensler: You’re Fired!
🟥 Representative Warren Davidson (Republican) is introducing legislation that removes the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission & replaces the role with an Executive Director that reports to the Board (where authority resides). Former Chairs of the SEC are ineligible. He replied to a tweet by Paul Grewal https://lnkd.in/eTyz56JP

❓ Will this ever happen? Extremely unlikely

🔴 Representative Tom Emmer (Republican) attacked Gensler for not being clearer with his rulemaking & said, claiming that Gensler was pushing American firms into the “hands of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party.)” Full details here via YouTube https://lnkd.in/eKnF63KA

🔴 Make NFTs Great Again!
🟥 President Donald Trump drops more NFTs. The second collection of digital trading cards, with tens of thousands of new collectables now available for mint. Decrypt has reported that the second series of Trump Digital Trading Cards spans a total of 47,000 NFTs minted on Polygon, an Ethereum sidechain network, with 1,000 of the NFTs held back by the developer. Each sells for $99, as with the original December 2022 drop, with some cards featuring Trump’s digital signature. Article here https://lnkd.in/e3cC8Syj
 

👀 Sweat Economy
Oleg Fomenko, Co-